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mered on both sides into a leanness and sharp edge . His two eyes—for two they were , and could not be called a pair- —were not only different in colour , but they each expressed a different meaning , and that too without squinting . One was lustrousl y hot and greenish , the other a dark piercing brpwn : they seemed
to be both employed at one moment on different occupations ; while the green one was taking your measure and scrutinizing for the best place in which to lodge the knife , the other was securing a retreat , calculating consequences , concocting an evasion of them , or balancing the weight of your purse . Tney spoke
at once in the present and future tense ; one was doing now , the other acting for bye-a ? id-bye . Whoever saw them once could ever after scarcely fail to recognise their owner , Fulgaz . He did me the honour to quit his bravado position , and , not with my good will , I assure you , reader , took his station at my side , as 1
walked towards the city gates , within which a volante was awaiting me . He was not a man to be repulsed with impunity . I dared not offer a word of dislike to his company , knowing how very unceremonious he would be with his knife if I aroused or touched his temper . Yet I was by no means disposed to hold communion with him , nor did he speak at all , but looked in my face occasionally with a malicious glee , as if he were mightily
pleased that I had witnessed his prowess . Thus accompanied , I arrived at the vehicle , when Fulgaz lifted his chapeau from his head , and with a bow , prolonged till it was burlesque of courtesy , he offered me his arm to assist me in ascending ; then casting an earnest and meaning glance into rny eyes , waved his hand , bowed again , saying , Adieu , Senhor Englishman ! you will not forget poor Fulgaz . ' The driver cheeped at his horse , and I passed in silence , g lowing with astonishment and some alarm , not without a little foreboding of mischief from that strange and desperate man . But 1 escaped unmolested , though I learned , some weeks after leaving the Havannah , that a knife had actually
been hired for my service at the charge of an ounce , that is , a doubloon . I can only suppose the operator did not find a clean opportunity for doing his job , but I have no reason to suspect Fulgaz was the person engaged . I never spoke of Fulgaz , and had almost ceased to think of him , till I was most strangely and dismally reminded of him thirteen months subsequent to the circumstances which I have related above . A Colombian vessel of war arrived in the harbour
of S with part of the crew of a piratical schooner which she had captured in the act of plundering an American vessel , the whole crew of which the pirates had murdered : so said report ; but it proved afterwards that they had avoided that fate b y run"ning their vessel on shore and escaping into the woods—an example which was followed by the pirates when surprised by the Colombian in a creek on the south side of the island of Cuba .
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792 Autobiography of Pel . Verjuice .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1834, page 792, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2639/page/46/
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